The superiority of river and sea transportation

Influenced by many factors, the traditional water transport is divided into inland waterways and the sea two relatively independent of the closed loop, the goods in and out of the inland is usually used in one, two or three way transportation, that is, the goods have to be through the relentless transshipment, or in the large direct sea vessels and small river vessels between the transfer of handling, or through the land will be transported to the terminal loading of containers, the transportation of the links more, long cycle, cargo damage, relatively high cost. River-sea intermodal transport is realized between river transport and sea transport continuous transport, reflecting the superiority of many:

(1) reduce transport links, the number of transfers and operating procedures, shorten the transport cycle, thus adapting to the owner of the rapid and logistics service requirements. For example, due to the increase in transportation speed, ships from Chongqing can reach Shanghai in 10 days, Wenzhou in another day, all ports in the north in 14 days, and Haikou, the farthest in the south, in only 18 days.

(2) Saving repeated and meaningless unloading and loading manpower and material resources, and reducing freight costs. It is estimated that, compared with the traditional transit mode, the river and sea direct can make each ton of ore transportation cost savings of 10% -20%, from Chongqing to Wenzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou and other places of cargo transportation river and sea intermodal transport price is the cheapest, a container from Chongqing through the river and sea direct to the northeast, the price is cheaper than the railroad direct to 1 / 3.

(3) Reduce the loss of goods in transit 1% or more, both to reduce the loss of goods and reduce environmental pollution.

(4) It creates conditions for transportation enterprises to expand markets and local governments to develop economy. The Yangtze River Shipping Group has extended its ro-ro transportation business from the Yangtze River line to Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South Africa through river-sea intermodal transportation, expanding the transportation business of the enterprise. Heilongjiang Province, through the river-sea intermodal transportation, has transported thousand-ton freighters loaded with rice from Dong'an Port on the Ussuri River and Tongjiang Port on the Songhua River to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province (via Fuyuan, the Amur River in Russia, the Tartar Strait, the Sea of Japan, the Korea Strait, and the East China Sea), which has opened up a new market for commodity grains.

(5) It provides a basis for the development of inland navigation and supports the formation of a new pattern of national comprehensive transportation system. Through the container river-sea intermodal transport, Chongqing port from Chongqing extended to Fuling, Wanzhou, port hinterland expansion to Sichuan, Guizhou, inland navigation has been revitalized; due to the development of the river-sea intermodal transport, the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, Heilongjiang Basin, the capacity structure is more reasonable, to a certain extent, to alleviate the situation of railroad capacity constraints; to improve the status of Shanghai's international shipping center.